"No matter how big the ears, they cannot exceed the head."
That morning, when the Rooster sang, the day arrived with all its problems.
–Toungou, go to the river and check the fish traps I set yesterday! I'm sure you'll find them full of fish!
–Toungou, go to the sugarcane field and check the porcupine traps, I've already caught one or two!
–No! It's a no! I can't take it anymore! Every day, Toungou, do this! Toungou, do that! I don't want to live here anymore, I want to disappear and stop hearing that old and wrinkled voice that's driving me crazy! I don't have to work to be happy, for heaven's sake! If you struggled in your youth, don't make me pay for it!
I can't take it anymore, I'm going to disappear!
–Oh my son, don't speak like that! Your mouth might lead you astray. Life is long, and you must let many suns pass. And besides, I am your father! As long as I'm alive, you must obey me, because it's the custom in our Bantu country!
–Ah, I'm going to disappear!
Mystically Mystical, In the darkness of the night in M'filou, the village inhabited by Toungou and his family, unbeknownst to his parents, Toungou climbed inside a peanut.
A Rooster passing by saw the peanut. And, as Roosters love peanuts, he swallowed it!
Not far away, a Civet saw the Rooster. In a silence that couldn't even awaken an ant, she swallowed the Rooster.
But the Boa, who was lurking around the village, saw the Civet, and without asking for its opinion, the Civet was already in the belly of the Boa!
The child was inside the peanut! The peanut was inside the belly of a Rooster! The Rooster was in the stomach of the Civet! The Civet was in the belly of the Boa! So the child was well hidden, isn't it so?
He wanted to disappear, and there, my dear friends, to disappear better than that, good luck!